Dipesh Pala Co-founder, Mindflight7

Dipesh Pala is a globally recognised thought-leader in the Agile space with nearly 30 years of experience across industries, cultures, and continents. As the leader of IBM’s Agile evolution across Asia Pacific, Dipesh has coached over 3,000 practitioners and helped scale Agile ways of working around the world.

A dynamic keynote speaker and seasoned enterprise coach, Dipesh brings a rare mix of pragmatic insight and human-centred wisdom. He’s passionate about helping today’s leaders navigate complexity with clarity, guiding managers and executives to become the Agile leaders their teams truly need.

Dipesh is also the Co-founder of two EdTech ventures: Dreamcity, an immersive career simulation for children built on Agile values, and MindFlight7, Australia’s largest VR education provider.

A strong advocate of simplicity, Dipesh offers practical yet powerful ways to address the challenges team members and leaders in Agile environments face today. He continuously pushes leaders and their teams beyond the practices and principles to take a step further into their Agile journey.

What are the qualities that you truly admire in the leaders around you? The traits that spelled success in the past may no longer be enough for what’s needed to lead into the future.

In this energising closing keynote, we’ll move beyond frameworks and buzzwords to explore what truly sets Agile leaders of the future apart. Drawing from his journey of building and leading two EdTech enterprises with global impact – alongside decades of driving multiple corporate transformations across nine countries – Dipesh Pala will spark a raw and real conversation where emotional intelligence rivals artificial intelligence, courage shapes the future, and trust becomes the currency of high-performing cultures.

Through live exercises, unexpected insights, and hard-earned lessons, we’ll uncover how bold, people-first leadership isn’t just a nice-to-have, it’s the edge.

It’s time to rethink, reimagine and redefine the qualities we admire in the leaders of the future – those who will transform not just our organisations, but the world around us. The future isn’t waiting. Neither should you.